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Thread: Falsifiability and the God Question: Category Error?
Post: RE: Falsifiability and the God Question: Category ...
| (01-09-2026, 01:43 PM)SteveII Wrote: Concluding Remarks
It turned out that there was no one here willing (Danu) or able (the rest of you) to make a cogent argument that an expanded epistemology is ... |
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Philosophy and Ethics
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Thread: Place to post the absurd.
Post: RE: Place to post the absurd.
| (09-15-2025, 02:56 PM)Phaedrus Wrote: US
Fox News hosts blame shooting of Charlie Kirk on ‘drugs they take in order to trans’
Pink
US director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard compares shoot... |
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Alan V |
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09-15-2025, 04:07 PM |
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Thread: It's a quote
Post: RE: It's a quote
| "And as to being in a fright,
Allow me to remark
That ghosts have just as good a right,
In every way, to fear the light,
As men to fear the dark."
-- Lewis Carroll, "Phantasmagoria," 1869 |
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Alan V |
Movies, Television, Art and Literature
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09-15-2025, 01:44 PM |
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Thread: Random thoughts - Mk II
Post: RE: Random thoughts - Mk II
| From Google (edited):
Quote:Wabi-sabi is a Japanese perspective rooted in Zen Buddhism that finds beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and simplicity. It's a worldview that encourages accepting the ... |
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Alan V |
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09-14-2025, 09:44 PM |
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Thread: Random thoughts - Mk II
Post: RE: Random thoughts - Mk II
| (09-14-2025, 12:48 PM)Alan V Wrote: I now blame human nature for most human failings, not the individuals themselves. That is a misanthropic perspective which sidesteps outright hatred in most case... |
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09-14-2025, 09:15 PM |
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Thread: Random thoughts - Mk II
Post: RE: Random thoughts - Mk II
| (09-14-2025, 02:46 PM)Dānu Wrote: (09-14-2025, 12:48 PM)Alan V Wrote: I now blame human nature for most human failings, not the individuals themselves. That is a misanthropic perspective which si... |
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Alan V |
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09-14-2025, 03:00 PM |
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Thread: Random thoughts - Mk II
Post: RE: Random thoughts - Mk II
| I now blame human nature for most human failings, not the individuals themselves. That is a misanthropic perspective which sidesteps outright hatred in most cases. Extreme emotionalism and jumping t... |
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Alan V |
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Thread: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times -- cui bono
Post: RE: It was the best of times, it was the worst of ...
| (09-14-2025, 03:06 AM)SYZ Wrote: And I have to ask why you "didn't care" who won in times past. Does
that give an electorate any legitimate cause for complaint if they were
to all follow your non-v... |
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Alan V |
World News, Politics and Current Events
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09-14-2025, 09:59 AM |
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Thread: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times -- cui bono
Post: RE: It was the best of times, it was the worst of ...
| (09-14-2025, 01:35 AM)SYZ Wrote: (09-13-2025, 04:08 PM)Alan V Wrote: I was a moderate who didn't even bother to vote, way back when...
Sorry mate, but this is a precursor and one of the main reaso... |
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Alan V |
World News, Politics and Current Events
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09-14-2025, 01:47 AM |
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Thread: Political Watch
Post: RE: Political Watch
| Charlie Kirk said, "You should be allowed to say outrageous things."
Predictably, Republicans are going after people who said outrageous things after Kirk was killed. Some people have already lost t... |
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Alan V |
World News, Politics and Current Events
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09-13-2025, 10:54 PM |
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Thread: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times -- cui bono
Post: RE: It was the best of times, it was the worst of ...
| I was a moderate who didn't even bother to vote, way back when. I just figured that sometimes the Republicans were best for the times and sometimes the Democrats, like walking with both legs. I also... |
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Alan V |
World News, Politics and Current Events
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09-13-2025, 04:08 PM |
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Thread: The American Insurrection (topical thread)
Post: RE: The American Insurrection (topical thread)
| (09-13-2025, 02:10 PM)Rhythmcs Wrote: (09-13-2025, 01:25 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Why do they hate America?Because of our freedom.
I second this answer. They don't understand the concept of plura... |
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Alan V |
World News, Politics and Current Events
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09-13-2025, 02:44 PM |
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Thread: Political Watch
Post: RE: Political Watch
| (09-12-2025, 08:47 PM)epronovost Wrote: (09-12-2025, 08:15 PM)Alan V Wrote: Republicans seem largely blind to their own repeated hypocrisies. I think that is the result of their self-righteousnes... |
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Alan V |
World News, Politics and Current Events
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09-12-2025, 09:54 PM |
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Thread: Political Watch
Post: RE: Political Watch
| (09-12-2025, 01:31 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Quote:NEW YORK (AP) — Matthew Dowd opened a floodgate.
The MSNBC political analyst, who lost his job shortly after on-air comments about conservative act... |
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Alan V |
World News, Politics and Current Events
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09-12-2025, 08:15 PM |
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Thread: Political Watch
Post: RE: Political Watch
| (09-11-2025, 01:01 PM)Phaedrus Wrote: (09-11-2025, 12:50 PM)Alan V Wrote: I would also add that those who publicly slander people are asking for trouble from other extremists. Human psychology is... |
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Alan V |
World News, Politics and Current Events
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09-11-2025, 05:42 PM |
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Thread: Word Association
Post: RE: Word Association
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Alan V |
Gaming
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09-11-2025, 12:53 PM |
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Thread: Political Watch
Post: RE: Political Watch
| (09-11-2025, 11:18 AM)Wolfy Wrote: No one should be shot dead for speaking their opinions, no matter how odious those opinions may be. Disgusting.
We don't yet know the specific motivations of the s... |
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Alan V |
World News, Politics and Current Events
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09-11-2025, 12:50 PM |
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Thread: Articles that caught your attention
Post: RE: Articles that caught your attention
| (09-08-2025, 03:07 AM)Dānu Wrote: A Senator Just Unapologetically Declared the U.S. a White Homeland
Quote:“What is an American?” This was the question Schmitt posed at the fifth annual National Co... |
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Alan V |
World News, Politics and Current Events
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09-08-2025, 02:20 PM |
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Thread: Nice guys aren't attractive?
Post: RE: Nice guys aren't attractive?
| (09-07-2025, 06:11 PM)Dexta Wrote: Do women generally not find nice guys attractive?
This isn't the right question IMO. I assume you are not trying to attract women in general but one specific woma... |
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Alan V |
Science, Engineering and Mathematics
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09-07-2025, 07:19 PM |
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Thread: Random thoughts - Mk II
Post: RE: Random thoughts - Mk II
| I have gotten old enough that my thinking is deteriorating more quickly than I would like.
So I will most likely let my wife make more decisions for me, since she is younger and smarter anyway.
In... |
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Alan V |
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08-24-2025, 12:04 AM |
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Thread: Random thoughts - Mk II
Post: RE: Random thoughts - Mk II
| (08-20-2025, 03:47 PM)Dānu Wrote: Quote:What is a good life, and how can we create it?
Forty-plus years of research has pointed to two answers.
The first says that a good life is a happy life, one... |
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Alan V |
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08-20-2025, 04:32 PM |
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Thread: What are your talents?
Post: RE: What are your talents?
| When I was young I had enough artistic talent to make me hopeful, but not enough to actually become competitive. A little talent can be misleading that way.
In any case, I was more interested in wri... |
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Alan V |
Getting to Know You
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08-20-2025, 10:01 AM |
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Thread: What’s your favorite animal and why?
Post: RE: What’s your favorite animal and why?
| Crows I suppose.
I like birds in general, and feed a fair number every day. But crows are especially impressive, elegant and smart.
We have a few who live in our neighborhood. I once saw ten at ... |
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Alan V |
Getting to Know You
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08-18-2025, 02:23 PM |
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Thread: What does profound mean?
Post: RE: What does profound mean?
| (08-17-2025, 07:02 PM)Trey Wrote: How would you define "profound"? Obviously different things are "deep" to different people. I've seen movies that I thought were profound, that other people thought... |
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Alan V |
Philosophy and Ethics
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08-18-2025, 12:33 PM |
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Thread: I hate sport
Post: RE: I hate sport
| I don't much care for most sports, but that is primarily because I find them too repetitive. I found that only football and golf involve the complexity to hold my attention for very long.
However, I... |
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Alan V |
Sports
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